The CIHA Blog’s commentary on recent news pieces about events in Africa.
Translation by Awa Cheikh / Introduction by Angela Okune
While slavery is imagined to be reserved to history books, shocking recent coverage by CNN exposed a horrifying present-day […]
By: Edwin Adjei, University of Ghana – Legon
History has a way of speaking the mind of a group of people, especially the mind of the powerful. Like many books that […]
Zanele Muholi, a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video and installation, will be giving the 9th Annual “Two Icons” lecture at the University of […]
By: Angela Okune and Abena Kyere
From lauding praise on the non-existent country of “Nambia” to congratulating African leaders for their countries’ business potential, U.S. President Trump caused quite a […]
Professor Chérif Keïta, a long-time supporter of the Blog who works at the intersection of religion and politics in Africa recently presented to East Carolina University (ECU) students about the […]
The African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) recently held its second bi-annual conference at the Institute of African Studies (University of Ghana, Legon) from October 12-14, 2017. The conference […]
By: Michael Ochieng’ Otieno, SJ, Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR)
In July 2009, on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa after taking office, President Barack Obama visited […]
By: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
Now that Jeffrey Gettleman has published a memoir about his tenure as the New York Times’s East Africa correspondent that is widely viewed […]
By: Angela Okune
For the second post in this week’s series looking at problematic reporting of Africa, we repost part of a recent piece by Karen Attiah, The Washington Post’s Global […]
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